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I think I was productive today. I played City of Heroes in the morning, but I had a lot of things that I wanted to do. I just needed to find a way to motivate myself to do them. Around Noon I had an idea, and I logged off and put in disc 6 of A Hat Full Of Sky in my stereo cd player in the living room. I rarely use the stereo, given that I'm usually playing computer games in my computer room and if not that, I'm on the couch in the living room watching tv or a movie. Even when I lay down to read I don't normally think to turn the old fashioned stereo on.
However, my copy of the second book on cd in the Tiffany Aching trilogy (acutally a fourth book has always been planned for the series, but for now it's still a trilogy) arrived last week, and I've been trying to listen to it. This is difficult because I'm working mornings at work now and I don't have 3-4 hours in the evening when I'm just working and not having to answer the phones. Listening to the book while answering phone calls constantly just doesn't work. I did listen to some of it on Friday, but my plan to listen to at least an hour of it in the morning was thwarted a bit by one of my very very LOUD co-workers arriving at work 20 minutes early, apparently so he could make certain that it wasn't too quiet. (He recently spent a week helping out the night shift and was thoroughly bored by the whole thing, because everyone is quiet and focused on their work. That is the one thing I'll miss most about working at night.)
So anyway... I'd listened to some of the book on cd while out walking -- I haven't ripped the cds though, so this involved carrying around my cd walkman. And I was looking for a method or escuse to listen to the rest of it, when it occured to me that I could do housework while playing it over the stereo. (Wow! Who would have ever thunk it?)
This worked great for the most part. I swept the floors and mopped them, but I had to pause the cd while doing the back bathroom. Then I set up my portable iPal radio/speaker in the back bedroom and started playing the final cd of the book. While this played, I worked on one of my projects of the day: removing the old toilet seat and putting in a new one. The old one had plastic mounts and one of them had broken, and rather than call maintinence and wait until they could do something I'd decided to buy a new one myself, on the theory that they might charge me for a new seat anyway, I didn't really want strange people in my apartment, and it sounded like something I could do on my own.
I'd picked up one of the more expensive seats at Fred Meyers -- one of the nice wooden ones with metal mounts that cost $27. That really wasn't the plan, but when it came down to buying one the others just seemed too cheap. Probably if I move I'll have to remove it and take it with me, and put in one of the cheap ones, but ah well!
Anyway after that I allowed myself to goof off on the computer some more. I finished my Tiffany Aching book, and now I want another Pratchett book on tape, but I think I've promised not to buy any more of them right now. Probably when
typograpgher and
miertam tried to give me this book on cd as a gift, I should have taken it, even though I had already ordered it. I could have listened to it a week earlier, and as for the one I'd ordered, it's not as if it wouldn't have made a great gift to one of my friends.
Ah well. I'll just have to go back to actually reading his books. But I can't do the voices as well as Stephen Briggs, even in my head.
I also did two loads of laundry, ran the dishwasher, and vacuumed. That's the most cleaning I've done since whenever it was the last time I had people coming over! ^_^
I think it's a sign of... something, possibly how lazy I am... that while I was cleaning in the kitchen I kept seeing the Reader's Digest on the counter that I'd recently bought, and I kept thinking, "I need to put that in the bathroom," because frankly that's where I usually read that magazine. Finally I did pick it up and take it into the bathroom and leave it on the counter. Then I returned to the kitchen, and noticed a minute later that the Reader's Digest that I'd recenty purchased was sitting there on the counter. What the?
No, I wasn't going crazy. One of them was last month's issue, that had been sitting there in the kitchen for several weeks, still unread....
However, my copy of the second book on cd in the Tiffany Aching trilogy (acutally a fourth book has always been planned for the series, but for now it's still a trilogy) arrived last week, and I've been trying to listen to it. This is difficult because I'm working mornings at work now and I don't have 3-4 hours in the evening when I'm just working and not having to answer the phones. Listening to the book while answering phone calls constantly just doesn't work. I did listen to some of it on Friday, but my plan to listen to at least an hour of it in the morning was thwarted a bit by one of my very very LOUD co-workers arriving at work 20 minutes early, apparently so he could make certain that it wasn't too quiet. (He recently spent a week helping out the night shift and was thoroughly bored by the whole thing, because everyone is quiet and focused on their work. That is the one thing I'll miss most about working at night.)
So anyway... I'd listened to some of the book on cd while out walking -- I haven't ripped the cds though, so this involved carrying around my cd walkman. And I was looking for a method or escuse to listen to the rest of it, when it occured to me that I could do housework while playing it over the stereo. (Wow! Who would have ever thunk it?)
This worked great for the most part. I swept the floors and mopped them, but I had to pause the cd while doing the back bathroom. Then I set up my portable iPal radio/speaker in the back bedroom and started playing the final cd of the book. While this played, I worked on one of my projects of the day: removing the old toilet seat and putting in a new one. The old one had plastic mounts and one of them had broken, and rather than call maintinence and wait until they could do something I'd decided to buy a new one myself, on the theory that they might charge me for a new seat anyway, I didn't really want strange people in my apartment, and it sounded like something I could do on my own.
I'd picked up one of the more expensive seats at Fred Meyers -- one of the nice wooden ones with metal mounts that cost $27. That really wasn't the plan, but when it came down to buying one the others just seemed too cheap. Probably if I move I'll have to remove it and take it with me, and put in one of the cheap ones, but ah well!
Anyway after that I allowed myself to goof off on the computer some more. I finished my Tiffany Aching book, and now I want another Pratchett book on tape, but I think I've promised not to buy any more of them right now. Probably when
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Ah well. I'll just have to go back to actually reading his books. But I can't do the voices as well as Stephen Briggs, even in my head.
I also did two loads of laundry, ran the dishwasher, and vacuumed. That's the most cleaning I've done since whenever it was the last time I had people coming over! ^_^
I think it's a sign of... something, possibly how lazy I am... that while I was cleaning in the kitchen I kept seeing the Reader's Digest on the counter that I'd recently bought, and I kept thinking, "I need to put that in the bathroom," because frankly that's where I usually read that magazine. Finally I did pick it up and take it into the bathroom and leave it on the counter. Then I returned to the kitchen, and noticed a minute later that the Reader's Digest that I'd recenty purchased was sitting there on the counter. What the?
No, I wasn't going crazy. One of them was last month's issue, that had been sitting there in the kitchen for several weeks, still unread....